What follows is Palm Beach Post Editor John Bartosek’s take on his newspaper’s management retreat, posted in a comment in the earlier post. The person who posted it (thanks, by the way) summarized it this way: “His language is much clearer but the upshot is no less disquieting: Readers of…
Management at the Sun-Sentinel is compiling a list of 50 to 60 newsroom staffers as potential buyout candidates, which it will submit to the Tribune Co. corporate office in Chicago on Friday, according to sources in the newsroom. Some of the more tenured reporters have been volunteering for the buyouts,…
Somebody had commented on here about a big management retreat for Palm Beach Post poo-bahs — and now we have the resulting memo (thanks to my colleague Deirdra Funcheon, who obtained it). The June 16 directive charts out a path for the future of the Post, a future that apparently…
Photojournalist Carlos Miller was acquitted of failure to obey and officer and disorderly conduct, but convicted of resisting arrest without violence. Apparently the judge, Jose L. Fernandez, didn’t take kindly to Miller’s use of the Internets. From Miller’s blog: Although prosecutor Ignacio Vazquez was (thankfully) asking for only three months…
Nothing personal against anyone in particular, just in general. A release from the Tribune Co. website (via Romenesko): CHICAGO, June 16, 2008 — Tribune Interactive President Marc Chase today named Kim Johnson as Senior Vice President of Local Sales. “The promotions department was testing a new online contest program, and…
Carlos Miller, who was arrested in Miami for taking pictures on a public street, had his opening day in trial yesterday. And the prosecutor in the case not only asked the judge to bar him from blogging about the trial, but brought a photo of Miller into evidence, noting that…
What New Times reported last week is now official: The Herald is cutting 17 percent of its workforce, or 250 positions, which is actually 2 percent more than we expected. “These next few weeks will be some of the most difficult and emotional we have faced,” Editor Anders Gyllenhaal wrote…
Just taking a break from MSNBC’s non-stop coverage of Tim Russert’s death. I’m typing fast, with growing fear that I might miss another reference to the Bills, the Pope, or Patrick Moynihan. Did you know that Russert graduated from law school? Now you do, 200 times over, during what has…
A look back at the way the Sun-Sentinel handled this week’s overblown tomato scare is truly Help Team journalism at its best. First you must understand that the tomato story was perfect for newspapers. Think about it — nothing like deadly tomatoes on a dull news day. Tomatoes are everywhere!…
Well, this hasn’t been my week blogging. I had the pictures of the Miami Herald Santeria rooster all day and delayed posting it, thinking that it would hold. Well, a blog called Random Pixels And Loose Talk From Miami Beach beat me to the punch. So it goes. My picture’s…
Broward County Commissioner John Rodstrom got the email while he was sitting on the dais during Tuesday commissioner meeting. A coworker of Rodstrom’s at Wachovia told him the boss was in town and everybody had to meet in the conference room at the downtown office. Rodstrom knew what was happening…
The document, titled “Obama and the Jews — Truth Checklist,” contains what Palm Beach County Republican Party Chairman Sid Dinerstein believes is the key that will unlock the doors of the White House for John McCain. Dinerstein says he didn’t write the document and can’t remember who sent it to…
Sun-Sentinel Managing Editor Sharon Rosenhause is retiring — and the newspaper isn’t filling the position. This is the memo posted in-house today by Executive Editor Earl Maucker: It is with considerable sadness that I am announcing today that Sharon Rosenhause has decided to retire effective July 31. Since the day…
Two recent comments posted on this blog in the past week are worthy of bringing to the fore, methinks. One recently came from the 19-year-old daughter (apparently) of Olidia Kerr Day, the woman who was gunned down in the parking lot of the Plantation Police Department. It came in response…
The Pulp is out of pocket right now, so posts will be light the next few days. But John DeGroot came through this weekend with a post about a big news story — the death of three people hit by a train carrying 200 passengers — that was reduced to…
So Chief Judge Victor Tobin announced Friday that Chief Criminal Judge Ana Gardiner was being moved (at her own request, of course) out of her position to become a judge in the civil division. This comes a month after my story on Gardiner’s improper relationships with lawyers who appear before…
UPDATE: I was going to put up a new post, but I don’t want to spread out the discussion to three posts when it’s already split up into two. Besides, at times like these, this isn’t about separate bickering newspapers, it’s about the journalism community — and we should all…
I’ve gotten several e-mails, phone calls, and comments on this blog suggesting that radical changes are about to take place at the Palm Beach Post. Still nothing is confirmed, but I want you all to know that I’m trying to keep my ear to tracks on this matter. Just today…
The Miami Herald has a story this morning about a Broward kid who ran into the Secret Service while trying to get to stardom in the art world. Deerfield Beach High graduate Yazmany Arboleda, 27, was picked up by police yesterday after putting the title of his latest exhibit –…
Sonia King says she was appalled when one of her coworkers made the proposition: If she would marry an illegal immigrant, she could make $10,000 in cash. A single mother of three, King was working as a legal secretary in the Broward State Attorney’s Office, the agency that prosecutes crimes,…
All things considered, Sheriff Al Lamberti doesn’t seem so bad. He’s a career law enforcement guy, pretty understated, and, while he was a faithful underling to disgraced predecessor and reformed farmer Ken Jenne, the rank and file seems to respect him. But all bets are off now that he’s a…
A lot of you have surely read T.M. Shine’s cover story in the Washington Post Magazine about his firing from City Link. I’ve been meaning to post it for a while. It’s funny, poignant and well-done, if a scad too long (yes, a New Times writer complaining about length –…
